Solving the Three Primary Challenges of Mobile Testing

In the race for mobile app supremacy, innovation and speed-to-market are now vital. Learn more about useful resources for mobile app testing teams that need to respond to these market conditions.

Over one billion smartphones and nearly 220 million tablets shipped globally in 2013. Mobile app development for the consumer and business markets exploded—both the Google and Apple app stores surpassed the one million app mark in 2013, growing by at least 300,000 apps each.

In the race for mobile app supremacy, innovation and speed-to-market are now vital. Apps are no longer planned, built, tested, released, and gradually deployed; instead they live in the cloud, change rapidly in response to user feedback, and deploy instantly to millions of devices. Within this article, we provide useful resources for mobile app testing teams that need to respond to these market conditions. We also discuss what differentiates mobile testing from traditional testing and how to plan accordingly along with practices that enable successful launches.